Posts Tagged ‘woolwich’

Ten months ago, in the paper, I revealed how Tell Mama, a project purporting to measure anti-Muslim attacks, had exaggerated the scale and nature of attacks against Muslims both before and after the m...
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People get a bit confused about freedom of speech. They don't always see the line between "being allowed to talk" and "other people having to listen". It's a conversation I have every so often in the ...
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The jury has delivered its verdict, and the two men who murdered Lee Rigby in cold blood in a London street have been delivered to justice. We don’t need to trouble ourselves with their names. It wa...
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There's a problem "within Islam" that the Government needs to address, says Tony Blair. Perhaps I'm being unfair, but it's as if Neville Chamberlain had revealed in 1940 that there was a problem with ...
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Something Must Be Done! What that Something is is secondary, provided it's Something! Censor the hate preachers! Or deport them! Tap phones! Intercept emails! Crack down on Internet radicalism! Extend...
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The tragic and brutal murder of Drummer Lee Rigby and the soul-searching over whether it could have been prevented continues to generate a great deal of media comment, much both ill-judged and prematu...
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David Cameron will be furious with the Sun on Sunday's front page today. But is the newspaper right? Or is the PM simply keeping calm and carrying on? You decide: vote in the poll below. Should David ...
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When we call a man a terrorist, we bestow a certain status on him. He ceases to be a common criminal, a violent narcissist, a drop-out. He becomes, instead, a man with a cause. Bellicose young men, in...
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Tune into any BBC London programme at the moment and one word dominates. That word is community. Even on a normal day on the capital's airwaves you will hear it a great deal, but in the aftermath of t...
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Murder in Woolwich: was this gruesome beheading the work of serious jihadis or demented young men using Islam as an excuse for their psychotic fantasies? And will we see more incidents like this as re...
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